Garment hanging unit



3, 1957 M. COLE ETAL 3,334,736

GARMENT HANGING UNIT Filed Dec. 2, 1964 lllJlllllIJ MAC 001.15 Qm/ HARRYWILLIAMS INVENTORS BYW United States Patent 3,334,736 GARMENT HANGINGUNIT Mac Cole, 6715 SW. 19th St., West Hollywood, Fla. 33023, and HarryWilliams, 1248 Burlington St., Opa Locka, Fla. 33054 Filed Dec. 2, 1964,Ser. No. 415,534 Claims. (Cl. 20656) This invention relates to a meansfor hanging units on a coat hanger, and, more particularly, to a garmenthanging unit for clothes to support them adhesively on a hanger withoutdamage to the garment.

In the past, skirts and other garments have been returned to thecustomer from dry cleaning establishments suspended from hangers byvarious types of attachment mean such as pins or clips and the like.However, many of the fabrics which are currently in style are damaged bysuch attachment means, particularly the skirt and dresses of women. Thisis because many such fabrics are so constructed that the holesoccasioned by pinning them up are left in the garment and quite oftenare snagged or slightly torn in handling. Further, clips crimp thegarment which remains with an unsightly fold or wrinkle at the area ofapplication. Also, such attachment means are given to leaving rust spotsbecause quite often such garments are not worn each day and a womanhanging them in her closet without removing the support pins or the likeoften finds several weeks later that her garment has been damaged.

The instant invention provides an inexpensive garment hanging unit foradhesively supporting the garment to a coat hanger.

It is, accordingly, a general object of this invention to provide agarment hanging unit which is simple in construction. relativelyinexpensive to manufacture, dispos able after use, and otherwise welladapted for the purpose for which it is intended.

It is another object of this invention to provide a hang- I ing unitincluding a first and a second strip having an adhesive face and a plainface with the adhesive face of one of the strips overlying the plainface of the other strip so that one end of the strip may be peeled apartto form a flap section on each, the flap section on one of the stripsbeing foldable so that the adhesive surfaces are in confronting relationto clasp and hold a garment therebetween and with the other flap portionbeing adapted to be folded over a coat hanger so that the adhesive faceof the flap portion overlays the plain surface of the flap portion ofthe other strip.

It is another object of this invention to provide a hanging unit of thetype set forth in the foregoing paragraph which includes tabbed endportions for ready removal of the strips.

In accordance with these and other objects which will become apparenthereinafter, the instant invention will now be described with referenceto the accompanying drawings illustrating preferred embodiment thereof.

In the drawings:

FIGURE 1 is an elevational view of a garment suspended on a coat hangerby the instant garment hanging unit;

FIGURE 2 illustrates a plurality of garment hanging units mounted to abacking board and ready to be used to hang garments on coat hangers;

FIGURE 3 is a perspective view of one side of a form of the instantgarment hanging unit;

FIGURE 4 is a perspective view of the adhesively coated face of the unitof FIGURE 3;

FIGURE 5 is a side elevational view, partly in cross section, toillustrate the application of the unit to a garment and coat hanger;

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FIGURE 6 is a side elevation view partly in cross section which issimilar to FIGURE 5 and illustrates the unit when applied to a garmentto suspend it from a coat hangergand FIGURE 7 illustrates theapplication of a modified version of the garment hanging unit to suspenda garment from a coat hanger; the version not having a tabbed loweredge.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, wherein like referencecharacters designate like or corresponding parts throughout thedifferent views, and referring particularly to FIGURE 1, the numeral 11generally designates a conventional coat hangef to which a garment suchas 12 is to be suspended. The garment hanging unit is generallydesignated by the numeral 14 and, as indicated in FIGURES 3 and 4,comprises an outer and an inner folda'ble strip, 18 and 19 respectively,which in the intended use thereof are joined together at theirrespective lower ends 20 and 22 and along a base length indicated by thenumeral 24 thereof, see FIGURE 7, by suitable means with the upperlengths of each strip comprising an adhesive flap portion, 26 and 28respectively. Each flap portion has an adhesive coated face 30 and 32and a plain surface 34 and 36; also the base length 20 of the innerstrip is adhesively coated.

In operation, as can be seen in FIGURE 7, an edge 38 of a garment to besuspended on a coat hanger 11 is adhesively grasped or clamped betweenthe confronting adhesively coated surfaces 32 of the flap 28 and thebase length 20 of the inner strip 19, the said flap being foldable alongthe foldline 40 and pinched manually so that the adhesive grasps thegarment 12, with suflicient adhesiveness to support the weight thereof.The flap portion of the outer strip 18 is then folded over the rung 42of the hanger into adhesive engagement with the plain surface 36 of theflap portion of the inner strip. As many garment hanger units as may bedesired may be utilized to support each garment and ordinarily only twoare required.

Referring to FIGURES 3 and 4, the garment hanging unit comprises theaforesaid first and a second strip which are joined together adhesively,each strip having the plain surface and the adhesive surface which arejoined together in companionate relation with the plain surface of onebeing in adhesive engagement with the adhesive surface of the other. Itwill be seen that the flap ends of both strips of each unit, as well asthe lower ends, are provided with a tab portion 46, 47, 48, 49, byfolding the ends thereof so that the adhesively coated surfaces confrontone another.

Referring to FIGURE 2, a plurality of garment hanging units areadhesively fastened in staggered relation in a straight vertical line ona backing board 51 with the adhesively coated surface of the topmostunit being in relatively loose adhesive engagement with the board andeach of the successive lower units overlaying a main length of anunderlying unit. Thus, each unit may be removed from the backing boardby either pulling two strips downwardly or, alternatively, upwardly fromthe backing board and applied as aforesaid to suspend a garment. Asindicated in FIGURE 2, the tabbed length of the flap end of the innerunit may be a little longer than the tabbed length of the outer strip sothat each individual strip of each unit is readily accessible.-

Referring to FIGURES 5 and 6, it is apparent that the tab is notnecessary at the lower end of the strip. Also, the adhesive surface ofthe outer strip need not extend beyond the flap portion since the baselength of the strips may be joined by other suitable means. 'It iscontemplated that a single length of tape may be folded in half as atthe line 52 to form a garment hanging unit for mounting to a backingboard by coating the single length 3 on one side with adhesive from theend to the mid-point and doing the same on the other side and thenfolding the single length to form a first and a second strip and so thatthe adhesive face of one sticks to the plain surface of the other.Further, it is seen that in accordance with this invention, a continuouslength of tape may comprise a plurality of such single lengths which aretransversely perforated along a tear line, not shown, at the 7 end ofeach single length so that a plurality of garment hanging units,connected at the perforated lines, may be mounted to the backing boardto be successively peeled off along the tear lines.

While the instant invention has been shown and described herein in Whatis conceived to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it isrecognized that departures may be made therefrom within the scope of theinvention, which is therefore not to be accorded the full scope of theclaims so as to embrace any and all equivalent apparatus and articles.

What is claimed is:

1. A disposable garment hanging unit for use in suspending a garmentfrom a coat hanger comprising, a length of flexible foldable tape foldedtransversely of the longitudinal center line of the tape intermediatethe length forming a pair of legs and a vertex area of the legs at thefold line, means adjacent the vertex of the folded length to hold aportion adjacent the vertex of each leg in engagement to form a Y-shapedunit having a stem and a pair of arms, adhesive means on one face of thestem and on one face of each leg, the said faces facing in a commondirection, one of the said legs being adapted to be folded toward thestem so that their respective adhesive faces confront one another toadhesively grasp the edge of a garment therebetween, the face of theother leg being adapted to be folded over a coat hanger so that theadhesive face adhesively engages the said one of the said legs.

2. A garment hanging unit as set forth in claim 1 wherein the distalends of the legs are provided with tabs.

3. A garment hanging unit comprising:

first and second flexible uncut strip portions, each of a continuousuncut predetermined size, said strip portions being joined together inoverlaying relation, with a lower portion of the first strip portionoverlaying a lower portion of the second strip portion and thelongitudinal center line of the portions being substantially coincident,and

with the upper portions of each strip portion comprising a flap, theupper and lower portions of said second strip and the flap of the firststrip each having a face coated with an adhesive material and each flaphaving an opposite plain face, said plain faces facing in a commondirection and with the adhesive faces of the second strip and theadhesive face of the flap of the first strip portion facing in 55 acommon direction, the flap of the second strip portion being adapted tobe folded on a first transverse line into confronting relation with theadhesive face of the lower portion of the second strip portion forgripping and adhesively clamping a garment therebetween with the leadingedge of the garment closely adjacent said first transverse line;

the adhesive face of the flap of the first strip portion being adaptedto be folded on a second transverse line substantially coincident withsaid first transverse line over a rung of a coat hanger to adhesivelyengage the rung and the plain face only of the flap of the second stripportion for suspending garments from a hanger; and

a tab portion defined at the upper and lower ends of the unit which tabportion is free and clear of adhesive on the exterior faces thereof forinitiating peeling of the flaps from the rung and the garment.

4. A garment hanging unit as set forth in claim 3 wherein the ends ofthe strips are bent back upon themselves to define said tab portions.

5. In combination, a backing board and a plurality of garment hangingunits, each said garment hanging unit comprising a first and secondstrip portion joined together along their lower ends, each of said stripportions having an adhesive face and a plain face, a portion of theadhesive face of the first strip portion overlaying in adhesiveengagement a portion of the plain face of the second strip portion, withthe upper portions of each strip portion comprising a flap portion witheach having an adhesive face and a plain face and extending from theoverlaying area of adhesive egagement, the flap portion of the secondstrip portion being adapted to be folded intermediate its length on atransverse fold line so that portions of the adhesive face confront oneanother for gripping and adhesively clamping a garment therebetween, andthe flap portion of the first strip portion being adapted to be foldedover a rung of a coat hanger to adhesively engage the plain face of thesecond strip portion, the said unit being for suspending garments from ahanger and each said unit being mounted to said backing board in avertical line with the adhesive face of the second strip portion of eachoverlaying the plain face of the underlying unit to form a verticalaligned group of garment hanging units, each of which is peelable fromthe board.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 331,555 12/1885 Scott. 2,5 10,2636/ 1950 Stein. 2,818,168 12/ 1957 Tobey et al. 20656 2,902,734 9/ 1959Walters 24-67.1 3,128,072 4/ 1964 Shibata 248-206 X 3,146,778 9/1964Krawiec 248205 X THERON E. CONDON, Primary Examiner. MARTHA L. RICE,Examiner.

3. A GARMENT HANGING UNIT COMPRISING: FIRST AND SECOND FLEXIBLE UNCUTSTRIP PORTIONS, EACH OF A CONTINUOUS UNCUT PREDETERMINED SIZE, SAIDSTRIP PORTIONS BEING JOINED TOGETHER IN OVERLAYING RELATION, WITH ALOWER PORTION OF THE FIRST STRIP PORTION OVERLAYING A LOWER PORTION OFTHE SECOND STRIP PORTION AND THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER LINE OF THEPORTIONS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY COINCIDENT, AND WITH THE UPPER PORTIONS OFEACH STRIP PORTION COMPRISING A FLAP, THE UPPER AND LOWER PORTIONS OFSAID SECOND STRIP AND THE FLAP OF THE FIRST STRIP EACH HAVING A FACECOATED WITH AN ADHESIVE MATERIAL AND EACH FLAP HAVING AN OPPOSITE PLAINFACE, SAID PLAIN FACES FACING IN A COMMON DIRECTION AND WITH THEADHESIVE FACES OF THE SECOND STRIP AND THE ADHESIVE FACE OF THE FLAP OFTHE FIRST STRIP PORTION FACING IN A COMMON DIRECTION, THE FLAP OF THESECOND STRIP PORTION BEING ADAPTED TO BE FOLDED ON A FIRST TRANSVERSELINE INTO CONFRONTING RELATION WITH THE ADHESIVE FACE OF THE LOWERPORTION OF THE SECOND STRIP PORTION FOR GRIPPING AND ADHESIVELY CLAMPINGA GARMENT THEREBETWEEN WITH THE LEADING EDGE OF THE GARMENT CLOSELYADJACENT SAID FIRST TRANSVERSE LINE; THE ADHESIVE FACE OF THE FLAP OFTHE FIRST STRIP PORTION BEING ADAPTED TO BE FOLDED ON A SECONDTRANSVERSE LINE SUBSTANTIALLY COINCIDENT WITH SAID FIRST TRANSVERSE LINEOVER A RUNG OF A COAT HANGER TO ADHESIVELY ENGAGE THE RUNG AND THE PLAINFACE ONLY OF THE FLAP OF THE SECOND STRIP PORTION FOR SUSPENDINGGARMENTS FROM A HANGER; AND A TAB PORTION DEFINED AT THE UPPER AND LOWERENDS OF THE UNIT WHICH TAB PORTIONS IS FREE AND CLEAR OF ADHESIVE ON THEEXTERIOR FACES THEREOF FOR INITIATING PEELING OF THE FLAPS FROM THE RUNGAND THE GARMENT.